CMAS Announces Public Symposium Scheduled for Fall 2013

Thu, September 5, 2013

The Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to sponsor a public symposia series to be held in the fall and spring semesters of the academic year. This gathering of leading scholars from diverse disciplines is designed to facilitate and further conversations central to the changing field of Mexican American studies. The title of the third symposium is "Fashionistas Fabulos@s" and is scheduled to take place November 7-8, 2013.

The symposium will critically consider bodily aesthetics as they manifest in style and fashion practices. The politics andpractices of adornment and accessorizing are historically an integral part of Latino/a and minoritarian communal formations, and the panelists focus on materiality and expression as they intersect with notions of race, place,and gender. Headlined by Project Runway's Mondo Guerra, the presentations range from examining Juan Gabriel's queer aesthetics of performance to fat positive fashion and self representation, this two-day symposium will address questions of embodied politics and Latino/a aesthetics as a lived realities.

The keynote conversation for the symosium, featuring Mondo Guerra, will take place on Thursday, November 7, with two panel sessions taking place during the afternoon of Friday, November 8.

Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies and the School of Human Ecology.